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SPCL 3850 (Elizalde-Utnick)

Cultural Humility in Working with Children & Families

Tasks Due on June 17

  • Journal Entry: Migration Stories, Colorism, and Code Switching
    1. Reading Reflection
      1. What is the most important point made in the Chavez-Dueñas reading? What is the most important point made in the Sanyal reading? What question(s) do you have about the readings?
    2. Migration Stories and Colorism
      1. Most of us have a migration story. What is your migration story?
      2. What types of migration trauma did your family experience? Were they fleeing oppression? Once they arrived where did they settle? Were they in an enclave of people from their country of origin or were they isolated? What did they experience in terms of exclusion?
      3. Describe your experience with colorism. How does intersectionality factor in?
      4. Go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/reader-center/trump-go-back-stories.html
      5. Read some of the “Go Home” stories.
      6. Share one of your own that you experienced or witnessed.
    3. Code-Switching
      1. If you are bilingual, answer these questions:
        1. Are you aware of yourself code-switching – i.e., switching between your languages mid-conversation?
        2. In what contexts and with whom do you code-switch and why do you switch languages?
      2. If you aren’t from a family where English isn’t a first language, perhaps you know other people who are. Think of someone you may be close to who is bilingual or who is from a bilingual family.
        1. Have you ever noticed them alternating between languages (or perhaps dialects), maybe in one conversation or even mid-sentence? What might be the motivator for the switching?
        2. What thoughts and feelings do you have when people speak a language you do not know in your presence?

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